mounds

英 [maʊndz]

美 [maʊndz]

n.  土墩; 小丘; 小山岗; 一堆; 许多; 大量
mound的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (一)堆;(一)垛
  Amoundof something is a large rounded pile of it.
  1. The bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt...
     推土机堆起一堆一堆的泥土。
  2. The table was a mound of paper and books.
     桌上堆满了文件和书。
• (棒球内场中央高出地面的)投球区土墩
  In baseball, themoundis the raised area where the pitcher stands when he or she throws the ball.

双语例句

• Known as the Devils Marbles, these naturally rounded boulders formed over a billion years ago when cooling magma in the Earth's crust forced up mounds of sandstone-covered granite.
  这些天然的圆形大石头被称为“魔鬼的弹珠”，大约在十亿年前，地壳中冷却的岩浆从砂石覆盖的花岗岩石堆中涌出，形成了这些圆石。
• This in turn has caused the plants on the mounds to grow bigger and their roots deeper.
  这反过来使堤坝上的植物长得更大，根扎得更深。
• Is it purely coincidental that there was much speculation in Joseph Smith's area about Indian Mounds and battles?
  在约瑟斯密的地区有许多关于印地安坟冢和战争，这纯粹是一个巧合吗？
• People made mounds of stone, brush, or mud, in water.
  人们用石头线、树枝，或泥土在水中修筑线脚。
• Poking through the dark covering are small mounds, probably made of more resistant material.
  通过黑暗覆盖挑逗小土堆，可能更多的材料制成。
• Ah! and there's the cemetery '-cemetery, he must have meant.' You see the mounds?
  啊，这就是同墓，&我想他要说的一定是公墓，看到那些土墩了吗？
• They often sleep in hollow trees, burrows, rock crevices, or empty termite mounds, and will come back to the same place every night.
  他们时常在空的树，洞穴中睡觉，岩石裂缝，或空的白蚁土墩和每个夜晚将会回到相同的地方。
• They built small mounds to hide behind.
  他们堆了一个小土墩然后躲在后面。
• In the park there are twelve small islands connected by arched bridges and small mounds.
  在公园中有12个小岛屿相连拱桥和小土堆。
• On the hot, dry savannahs of east and west Africa, their mounds are many-spired "cathedrals".
  在东非和西非炎热干旱的草原上，他们的巢有许多“教堂的尖塔”。